If you take one thing from Claude Code, make it this: Explore → Plan → Code → Commit. The developers who skip straight to “write me the code,” then spend the next hour arguing with the output. This workflow exists to prevent that. Explore Before writing a single line, Claude needs context. Without it, you get […]
Read More →A practical guide for developers navigating Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Windsurf, Codex, and beyond. You switch from Cursor to Claude Code. Or from Copilot to Windsurf. The interface is different. The shortcuts are different. The config file has a new name. And for a moment, it feels like you’re starting from scratch. You’re not. Under […]
Read More →The most underrated trick I have landed on is treating Claude Code as a coach for using Claude Code. The tooling already sees how you work: sessions, prompts, tools, and where time goes. The part most people skip is closing the loop: turn that signal into habits, not just a pretty chart. The workflow You can punt […]
Read More →Claude Code can show a status line at the bottom of the terminal: a thin bar that updates as you work. It is easy to ignore until you start hitting context limits or wondering what a session actually cost. The bar keeps that kind of signal in peripheral vision so the main transcript stays focused on the […]
Read More →AI coding agents are fast, but they cut corners. Agent Skills is an open-source project by Addy Osmani that gives agents the same structured workflows senior engineers follow, from spec to ship. This post breaks down how it works, explains the Google engineering principles it builds on (Hyrum’s Law, Chesterton’s Fence, the Beyonce Rule, Shift […]
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